This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and expose) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 expose reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental "disorders."

"The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out." Twenty-three-year-old journalist Nellie Bly, describing New York City's most notorious mental institution, wrote those words in 1887 after getting herself committed to the asylum. After her release she wrote a shocking expose called Ten Days in a Madhouse, launching her career as a world-famous investigative reporter and helping to improve conditions at mental institutions across the United States. Her story is just as remarkable today as it was shen she wrote it....

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Since my experiences in Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum were published in the World I have received hundreds of letters in regard to it. The edition containing my story long since ran out, and I have been prevailed upon to allow it to be published in book form, to satisfy the hundreds who are yet asking for copies. I...

A compilation of original, unabridged newspaper articles by Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who wrote under the name Nellie Bly. By disguising her voice, mannerisms and appearance, this intrepid reporter gained admittance to New Yorks vast cultural underground of criminals, con artists, and frauds, and fearlessly exposed their scams and shenanigans to a rapt and growing audience on the front pages of Joseph Pulitzers The New York World. Blys reporting introduced the era of muckraking journalism, and originated the practice of undercover reporting that has remained a vital journalistic art to the...

Nellie Bly was an American reporter best known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. Bly also undertook an assignment to fake insanity in order to be placed in an asylum. Bly wrote popular accounts of both experiences.

Nellie Bly was an American reporter best known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. Bly also undertook an assignment to fake insanity in order to be placed in an asylum. Bly wrote popular accounts of both experiences.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days by Nellie Bly is an adventure travelogue of the author's famous journey around the world. It is sometimes difficult to tell exactly what gives birth to an idea. Ideas are the chief stock in trade of newspaper writers and generally they are the scarcest stock in market, but they do come occasionally.

"Around the World in Seventy-Two Days" from Nellie Bly. American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker (1864-1922).